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This time last year Father Nature were commissioned by Lambeth through the Neighbourhood Enhancement Programme (NEP) to tackle fly-tipping, careless parking and driving as well as sites of antisocial behaviour in the borough. Father Nature immediately set to work on what we called our ‘Beds not Bollards’ campaign, building planters and working with communities to make their street not only … Read More

St George and the Dragon This is the glorious new mosaic of St George and the dragon that was unveiled this week at Cato Road Pocket Park, off Bedford Road in Clapham. Father Nature’s Mr Badjie provided the manpower to erect the base and fill in the plastering while the mosaic itself was designed and created by local artist Giorgio … Read More

We can’t wait for the Lambeth Country Show on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th July. We’re going to have so much fun! We’re delighted to have joined together with Natural Thinkers, experts in ‘natural’ play as well as Lambeth Family Learning to make one giant stand that will provide a bundle of FREE kid friendly family activities for the … Read More

We’re delighted to report that Father Nature has won a Growing Localities Award from the City of London Corporation’s charity City Bridge Trust. The award is for our ‘Growing Dads’ project to ‘skill up’ young fathers in Lambeth to combat unemployment, teach life skills and promote responsible fathering models. We’d like to take this moment to recognise the hard work … Read More

Children from Loughborough Primary School in Stockwell took to the streets on Friday 20th March to plant up new raised beds designed and built by Father Nature to improve safety outside their school gates. The Planting Party was a huge hit with the kids, some of them even gave the plants names including ‘Lightening’ and ‘Electric Fred’! Outside the school … Read More

To all growing hubs and pocket parks – if you’re looking for funds to support your group then get cracking and apply for these two grants – there’s still time, but only just! The Capital Clean Up grant from the GLA is offering £500-£1,500, as well as clean-up kits to help you run local clean-up events. Whether you want to … Read More

Father Nature now has two new Facebook pages, Father Nature for all our official news (look out for the Father Nature logo to spot us), and a Father Nature Community group page for all your news! We’ve set up the Father Nature Community group page so all you Father Nature followers and doers, growing hubbers and pocket parkers can keep each other posted about community, gardening or … Read More